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...Potsdam, he said, the U.S. had proposed that four of Europe's great waterways-the Rhine, the Danube, the Kiel Canal and the Black Sea Straits-be internationalized. This was an explosive proposition. Said Harry Truman: selfish control of the waterways "had been one of the persistent causes for wars in Europe...
...Scheer. The R.A.F. kept up its incessant bombing of Berlin-which reconnaissance pilots called "a dead city" -and smashed Potsdam, cradle of the German army. The British also attacked German ports and shipping off the north coast. After a raid on Kiel, where the flyers saw a tremendous explosion, reconnaissance photographs showed the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, capsized and sunk in the inner basin...
...Louis and its favorite daughter did themselves proud. The 41-year-old prima donna was a joy to photographers. She twittered with the birds in the municipal zoo, was twittered over by excitable St. Louis socialites who did not know her at all in the old days. In Kiel auditorium, she sang 24 songs (only one from Wagner). On Sunday she took her oldtime seat in the loft of the jampacked Pilgrim Congregational Church. Miss Traubel refused to walk down the aisle with the choir, but in excellent voice soloed, O Master, Let Me Walk with Thee...
...other attempts to put submarine-borne spies to work on U.S. soil, the Germans tried again. This time they sent only two, but apparently thought their prospects well worth a lot of trouble: the Nazis took a U-boat out of service for 54 days to ship them from Kiel to Frenchman...
Britain's war was not even one day old (on Sept. 3, 1939) when dark, easy-smiling Guy Gibson flew his first bombing mission-to Kiel's ship canal. By late 1943, Wing Commander Gibson was the only one left of his 1939 squadron's 26 men. "Great Guy" Gibson had become a legend in the R.A.F. He was the famed "Dam Buster" (so dubbed by Winston Churchill after the spectacular Möhne and Eder dam-breaching raids); Britain's most decorated airman (the Victoria Cross, the Distinguished Flying Cross and bar, the Distinguished Service...